Word: acorn
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...from the real sinners. "If a stock is trading at $1 and it was trading at $50, it is telling you that unless a rabbit is pulled out of a hat, it is going bankrupt," says Jason Selch, analyst with Chicago-based Wanger Asset Management, which manages the Liberty Acorn Funds. Selch looks for orphans, stocks that have fallen so far out of favor that even brokers aren't paying attention to them. One orphan he owns is Navigant Consulting, which traded as high as $50 in 1999 and is now less than $6, a casualty of several class actions...
...ordinary citizens who support a social policy that emphasizes work. The coalition "cuts against conventional fault lines," says Dan Cantor, executive director of New York's Working Families Party, a three-year-old organization. Jen Kern, director of the Living Wage Resource Center, an arm of the community organizer acorn, says, "It's risky not to do anything when people working on the public dollar are sleeping in cars at night...
...sales of purebred puppies and teddy bears. The marketing can get desperate: a Denver furniture company advertises its mattresses with a picture of "Mike Ziegler, Area Fire Fighter" and the tag line "This is Mike. He can't afford a bad night's sleep." Maureen Wilkinson, owner of Acorn Travel in River Forest, Ill., sharpened her sales pitch. "Are you uncomfortable leaving your family behind?" asked the ad. "Take them with you! Family reunions are great fun on an Alaskan Cruise...
Human Needs Not Corporate Greed/March for Our Lives! (Monday, August 14): Similar to the Unity2000 march in Philadelphia, this promises to be the largest demonstration of the convention's opening day. Includes participation by ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), Rainforest Action Network, International Socialist Organization, Queers For Racial & Economic Justice, Radical Student League, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice, Alliance for Democracy...
...minutes." Suspicious. Another floormate refutes Jane's claim: "It was posted for an hour or two before it was taken down." Other accounts confirm that the diagram found its way to a tackboard. The floormate even recalls a swarm of intrigued students huddled around it like squirrels over an acorn...